The Penguin book of the modern American short story /
The Penguin book of the modern American short story /
Modern American short story
edited by John Freeman.
- xv, 480 pages 25 cm
Introduction / A conversation with my father / The ones who walk away from Omelas / Bicycles, muscles, cigarettes / The flowers / Girl / The red covertible / The reencounter / Taking care / Story / China / Pet milk / The way we live now / Salvador late or early / The things they carried / Tim O'Brien, 1986 -- River of names / Emergency / Sticks / Fiesta, 1980 / Silence / The twenty-seventh man / Bullet in the brain / The hermit's story / A temporary matter / The penthouse / The fix / Water child / The American embassy / The conductor / St. Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves / The last thing we need / The paper menagerie / The dune / Diem perdidi / The great silence / The midnight zone / Anyone can do it / by John Freeman -- The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara, 1972 -- Grace Paley, 1972 -- Ursula K. Le Guin, 1973 -- Raymond Carver, 1973 -- Alice Walker, 1973 -- Jamaica Kincaid, 1978 -- Louise Erdrich, 1981 -- Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1982 -- Joy Williams, 1982 -- Lydia Davis, 1983 -- Charles Johnson, 1984 -- Stuart Dybek, 1984 -- Susan Sontag, 1986 -- Sandra Cisneros, 1986 -- Dorothy Allison, 1988 -- Denis Johnson, 1991 -- George Saunders, 1994 -- Junot Díaz, 1996 -- Lucia Berlin, 1998 -- Nathan Englander, 1998 -- Tobias Wolff, 1998 -- Rick Bass, 1998 -- Jhumpa Lahiri, 1998 -- Andrew Holleran, 1999 -- Percival Everett, 1999 -- Edwidge Danticat, 2000 -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2003 -- Aleksandar Hemon, 2005 -- Karen Russell, 2007 -- Claire Vaye Watkins, 2010 -- Ken Liu, 2011 -- Stephen King, 2011 -- Julie Otsuka, 2011 -- Ted Chiang, 2015 -- Lauren Groff, 2016 -- Manuel Muñoz, 2019.
"A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman."--
9781984877802 1984877801
2020056441
Short stories, American--20th century.
Short stories, American--21st century.
Short stories.
Introduction / A conversation with my father / The ones who walk away from Omelas / Bicycles, muscles, cigarettes / The flowers / Girl / The red covertible / The reencounter / Taking care / Story / China / Pet milk / The way we live now / Salvador late or early / The things they carried / Tim O'Brien, 1986 -- River of names / Emergency / Sticks / Fiesta, 1980 / Silence / The twenty-seventh man / Bullet in the brain / The hermit's story / A temporary matter / The penthouse / The fix / Water child / The American embassy / The conductor / St. Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves / The last thing we need / The paper menagerie / The dune / Diem perdidi / The great silence / The midnight zone / Anyone can do it / by John Freeman -- The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara, 1972 -- Grace Paley, 1972 -- Ursula K. Le Guin, 1973 -- Raymond Carver, 1973 -- Alice Walker, 1973 -- Jamaica Kincaid, 1978 -- Louise Erdrich, 1981 -- Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1982 -- Joy Williams, 1982 -- Lydia Davis, 1983 -- Charles Johnson, 1984 -- Stuart Dybek, 1984 -- Susan Sontag, 1986 -- Sandra Cisneros, 1986 -- Dorothy Allison, 1988 -- Denis Johnson, 1991 -- George Saunders, 1994 -- Junot Díaz, 1996 -- Lucia Berlin, 1998 -- Nathan Englander, 1998 -- Tobias Wolff, 1998 -- Rick Bass, 1998 -- Jhumpa Lahiri, 1998 -- Andrew Holleran, 1999 -- Percival Everett, 1999 -- Edwidge Danticat, 2000 -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2003 -- Aleksandar Hemon, 2005 -- Karen Russell, 2007 -- Claire Vaye Watkins, 2010 -- Ken Liu, 2011 -- Stephen King, 2011 -- Julie Otsuka, 2011 -- Ted Chiang, 2015 -- Lauren Groff, 2016 -- Manuel Muñoz, 2019.
"A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman."--
9781984877802 1984877801
2020056441
Short stories, American--20th century.
Short stories, American--21st century.
Short stories.